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...interagency Afghanistan Working Group, also says that "the sheik was never an agent, he was never an informant," and he had no role in the CIA's Afghanistan operation. By the time the sheik was recruiting for the mujahedin, the Soviets had left. Moreover, he backed an anti-American rebel faction shunned...
...Dole argued for his own doomed deficit-reduction plan, which contained no tax increases, he said, "Ross Perot has got the message . . . He's been out among real people." A dozen Republicans from both houses joined Perot's photo op. They were eager to be seen with the rebel who savaged their own presidential candidate last year but is now the enemy of their enemy...
WASHINGTON -- After 600 refugees were massacred in Liberia on June 6, it seemed as if everybody in this country riven by civil war wanted to blame somebody else for the slaughter. Eyewitnesses said the forces of rebel leader Charles Taylor were responsible; Taylor blamed the pro-government Armed Forces of Liberia. Now investigators believe that both versions have a piece of the even ghastlier truth. Taylor's rebels entered the camp, stole rice from the refugees and then went on a killing orgy. A.F.L. soldiers, who were supposed to be guarding the camp, did not intervene or bother to phone...
Eszterhas has been able to get away with being a defiant rebel because he delivers high-voltage scripts. He's become best known for his sharp, pulp- fiction sense and his ability to build dramatic confrontations out of blunt dialogue. He can also hammer out reams of pages within hours. On Flashdance, Simpson recalls, "he gave us a draft in two weeks, then did 11 more. He's a workhorse...
...mean mother (Irene Worth); her 36-year-old daughter (Mercedes Ruehl), ! whom the mother has contrived to keep in a state of childish dependency; and a rebel son (Richard Dreyfuss), who has become a gangster: confine just these three most colorful members of the Kurnitz family in a small space (the apartment above Mom's candy store in Yonkers, circa 1942), and claustrophobia begins to itch at one's soul. Add a couple of lively boys, Jay and Arty (Brad Stoll and Mike Damus), forced by circumstances to live with Grandma for the worst part of a year...